Our first destination when we left Munkedal on Thursday morning was the seaside resort Bovallstrand. ("strand" is the Swedish word for "beach")
I'm not quite sure whether we got there by the road marked
blue on the map, or the alternative route below that one -
but around 10:45 am we had arrived.
Parking apps everywhere these days... and rarely the same one as the last stop...!
I had not done a lot of research on Bovallstrand
beforehand; but while we were there, and after, I learned that people
have been living in this area since the Stone Age; and from the 16th
until the mid 20th century its main industries were fishing for herring,
freight trade and quarrying. When the fishing diminished, the place was
instead turned into a popular bathing resort. A lot of old houses and
boat-houses from the 19th and early 20th century have been preserved;
and the village is especially famous for its so called "bathing islets" - connected by bridges, and with classic old
bathing cabins etc. This turned out to be
just where we had ended up after driving through the village; so we
parked the car and went for a walk out on those rocks. (As you can see,
we had better luck with the weather on our second day than on the first!)
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| Panorama view towards land |
Royal signature on one of the rocks...(Gustaf Adolf, crown prince back in 1935; but later King Gustaf VI Adolf. He was the grandfather of our present king, Carl XVI Gustaf).
Bovallstrand
is a small village with only around 450 permanent residents, and we
were only there for like half an hour, walking out on those islets - but it
felt like time well spent. :)
